Overview
- Justice Minister Walter Martínez led a surprise search of Lurigancho’s pavilion 4, deploying more than 300 GOES agents to inspect about 650 inmates and seize cellphones, notebooks of contacts, and clandestine electrical outlets.
- Contraband removed in Lurigancho included televisions, sound equipment, fans, pool tables, and an image of the Santa Muerte, alongside illegal wiring used to power banned devices.
- INPE says the raid is part of an escalated campaign that conducted 4,100 searches in six months, seizing about 950 phones and over 1,500 sharp objects, while transferring suspected gang leaders to Ancón I, Challapalca and Cochamarca.
- The security push coincided with fresh violence as INPE confirmed the fatal stabbing of inmate Keiber José Aguiño Aguilar in the Chiclayo prison, with an internal investigation under way.
- Parallel inspections underscore regional risk, as an interagency sweep at Aguaruto prison in Culiacán found a fragmentation grenade, an MP‑15 rifle, several pistols, drugs, cash and dozens of phones, and police-led checks in Piura recovered knives and suspected narcotics.